Yo guys,
I have an assignment coming up based on research on Twitter so I need about 20 ppl to be on my list to proceed. Unfortunately, I have never used Twitter in my entire life so I would really appreciate it if anyone of you using Twitter pls add me so I can get the gist of it.
My email add is the same as my msn so pls add me! Thanks a million!
alonso
Friday, April 16, 2010
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
SSDD
Certain observations have annoyed me to the point that I've decided to write a post. (after a long break due to complaints that I'm the only one writing or that my writing cannot be understood by everyone. This of course leads to the question of whether its my fault that I'm the only one writing or that some people cannot understand my writing. I'm sure I'm grammatically correct and logically coherent most of the time.)
Not to digress. I've found it frustrating that my peers have fallen into an intellectual complacency. As young people, we somehow no longer question the things around us or even the point of our own existence. From a global perspective, this is an anomaly. We probably produce the least rebellious (and the dullest) university graduates in the entire world.
Week in week out, the hordes swarm the clubs to dance to the same music and the same beat, in the same manners, for the same reasons. Day in day out, we do the same things and think about the same stuff. We eat the same food at the same places. We do the things which are safe and conventional, acceptable by our conventional friends. Do the youth of today lack intellect or are we really that naive?
It is tempting to believe that entering the workforce enforces a certain mindframe on people, or that 'social engineering' is more rampant in certain professions which require mechanical adherence to process and technicality. That line of thought is an insult to the capacity for adaptation and evolution that is inherent in every one of us, as part of our genetic inheritance.
Most of my friends (I'm proud to say) are smart people. They were bright students in school and they are probably bright people still. However (as Kumar as mentioned), there is a difference between intelligence and intellect. If intelligence is the brain, then intellect is the mind. It is a damned shame when intelligent people lack the intellect to be more critical or even more intellectually adventurous.
Yesterday I had a fantastic conversation with a classmate of mine, an International Relations student from New Zealand (quite kip). She's a big fan of postmodern philosophy, believes in spirituality through yoga and taichi, and she is a vegan on the grounds of animal rights. We were talking about how a fragmented consciousness can be incredibly harmful to a person's sanity, yet oh so important for change and enlightenment. I have a bad feeling that I will never have intellectual conversations like that with my fellow Singaporeans. I have a nagging feeling that I will outgrow this place intellectually. Then what next?
Maybe its a small country syndrome. Everybody has the small town mentality. Similarity for security's sake, and conservative to a fault. Perhaps the biggest flaw here is our incessant desire to be safe, a product of our nanny-state upbringing. What's so interesting about safe?
Ang Heng
Not to digress. I've found it frustrating that my peers have fallen into an intellectual complacency. As young people, we somehow no longer question the things around us or even the point of our own existence. From a global perspective, this is an anomaly. We probably produce the least rebellious (and the dullest) university graduates in the entire world.
Week in week out, the hordes swarm the clubs to dance to the same music and the same beat, in the same manners, for the same reasons. Day in day out, we do the same things and think about the same stuff. We eat the same food at the same places. We do the things which are safe and conventional, acceptable by our conventional friends. Do the youth of today lack intellect or are we really that naive?
It is tempting to believe that entering the workforce enforces a certain mindframe on people, or that 'social engineering' is more rampant in certain professions which require mechanical adherence to process and technicality. That line of thought is an insult to the capacity for adaptation and evolution that is inherent in every one of us, as part of our genetic inheritance.
Most of my friends (I'm proud to say) are smart people. They were bright students in school and they are probably bright people still. However (as Kumar as mentioned), there is a difference between intelligence and intellect. If intelligence is the brain, then intellect is the mind. It is a damned shame when intelligent people lack the intellect to be more critical or even more intellectually adventurous.
Yesterday I had a fantastic conversation with a classmate of mine, an International Relations student from New Zealand (quite kip). She's a big fan of postmodern philosophy, believes in spirituality through yoga and taichi, and she is a vegan on the grounds of animal rights. We were talking about how a fragmented consciousness can be incredibly harmful to a person's sanity, yet oh so important for change and enlightenment. I have a bad feeling that I will never have intellectual conversations like that with my fellow Singaporeans. I have a nagging feeling that I will outgrow this place intellectually. Then what next?
Maybe its a small country syndrome. Everybody has the small town mentality. Similarity for security's sake, and conservative to a fault. Perhaps the biggest flaw here is our incessant desire to be safe, a product of our nanny-state upbringing. What's so interesting about safe?
Ang Heng
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